Beazley Hiring for HR Business Partner at London Full Time

Division: Culture & People

Who We Are

Beazley is a specialist insurance company with over 30 years’ experience helping people, communities and businesses to manage risk all around the world. Our mission is to provide Beautifully Designed Insurance, innovating to give our clients the maximum benefit with minimum hassle.

Our products are wide ranging, from cyber & tech insurance to marine, healthcare, financial institutions and contingency; covering risks such as the weather, film production or protection from deadly weapons.

Our Culture

We employ over 1,500 people globally, hosting a wonderful diversity of cultures, experiences and backgrounds. We are proud of our family-feel culture at Beazley that empowers our staff to work from when and where they want, in an adult environment that’s big on collaboration, diversity of thought & personal accountability.

Our three core values inspire the way we work and how we treat our people & customers – 1) Be bold 2) Strive for better 3) Do the right thing. Upholding these values every day has enabled us to become an innovative and responsive organisation in touch with the changing world around us – our ambitious I&D & Sustainability targets are testament to this.

We encourage internal career progression at Beazley, giving you all the tools you need to drive your own career here, such as iLearn (our own learning & development platform), LinkedIn Learning, our mentorship program and external qualification sponsorship. As a Beazley employee, you also get access to our fantastic array of benefits which include commuting reimbursement, free in-office lunch, six months parental leave and a lifestyle allowance amongst many others.

The Role

Provide a client focused human resources service to all managers and staff in globally which supports Beazley’s business objectives. Proactively work as part of the global Culture and People team.

Key Responsibilities:
Internal Adviser

Act as an internal adviser to the business, providing knowledge, solutions and advice on people related matters.

Build strong working relationships with key business areas and develop strong product knowledge of business and product lines.

Maintain a clear understanding of Beazley’s growth strategy and conduct manpower planning with line managers, ensuring these are aligned to the wider people strategy and working with the rest of Culture and People as appropriate.

Keep the rest of the Employee Experience team, and wider Culture and People team, up to date on developments in your business area, discussing trends and concerns as appropriate.

Recruitment

Advise and assist the hiring managers on all aspects of the process including recruitment strategy, shortlisting candidates, interviewing and offers.

Challenge hiring managers on candidate selection as appropriate, and influence them to result in better decision making.

Monitor and advise on headcount, challenging the business on extra budgetary and other positions where appropriate

Work with the reward team to benchmark roles across the industry using internal data, externally compiled data, and agency resources.

Employee Relations

Regularly meet with your business units to keep your “finger on the pulse” of any people related issues, both current and upcoming, and work with the Head of Employee Experience to feed this into the wider people strategy.

Advise, guide and coach managers on all people related issues, including performance.

Manage formal employee relations cases referring to Head of Employee Experience, Head of Culture and People and/or outside counsel as required.

Support managers to appropriately assess their talent and ensure that they are having effective development conversations, supporting career progression and succession planning within their team.

Keep up to date and curious on employment law updates affecting the business.

Change Management

Work on complex projects as required by the Head of Employee Experience on an ad hoc basis

Run change programmes as required within a fast-paced environment, ensuring that a balance is always made between the needs of the business and the employee experience

Work with the internal communications teams, and potentially external, to ensure that they are aligned on any change being undertaken and the Beazley brand and culture is embedded throughout the process

Facilitate change within your business units on all levels, from small scale cultural/mindset changes to redundancies/restructures, ensuring any change is embedded and appropriate mechanisms are in place to assess its effectiveness going forward.

Personal Specification:
Qualifications

Professional HR qualification (desirable)

Skills and Abilities

Ability to establish close working relationships with a range of talented professionals who operate under constant time pressure

Ability to negotiate and influence at all levels

Strong communication skills, both verbal and written

Strong team worker as well as able to work on own initiative

Strong organisation skills with the ability to manage own time, meet deadlines and prioritise

Ability to command respect from colleagues at all levels

Understanding of both strategic and operational details

Advanced interviewing skills

Advanced organisational/process management, problem solving and project management skills

Detail orientated with an understanding of the need for accurate and timely management information

Computer skills – good working knowledge of MS Office and Candidate Management systems

Knowledge and Experience

Demonstrable in-depth HR experience

Proven track record of successful change management

Awareness of best practice HR principles

Knowledge of global employment law (desirable)

Working as part of a team in a client-focussed role to meet challenging deadlines in an HR environment

Aptitude and Disposition

Positive

Enthusiastic

Proactive

Self-motivated, flexible

Customer and business focussed

Competencies

Achievement driven

Delegation

Managing resources effectively

Self-starter

Integrity and empathy

Customer focussed